Hussein Ibish, Columnist

Turkey Is Changing the Middle East. The U.S. Doesn’t Get It.

Leadership of the Islamic world is shifting, weakening the anti-Iran coalition.

March 14, 2019 at 2:00 AM EDT

By Hussein Ibish

Hussein Ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.

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The Middle East is changing fast but the U.S. seems to be the last government to realize it and respond.

For at least 10 years, the region has been caricatured as divided into two camps: a pro-Iranian coalition and a looser but larger group that opposes Iran's ambitions. For short, it’s sometimes foolishly reduced to a Sunni-Shiite sectarian divide.

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